GRE Word List
AMALGAM
a mixture of different elements
The meaning of the word amalgam is a mixture of different elements.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| tyro | a beginner in learning : novice |
| empathy | the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner |
| tenancy | a holding of an estate or a mode of holding an estate |
| nomadic | of, relating to, or characteristic of nomads |
| assimilate | to take into the mind and thoroughly understand |
| galvanize | to subject to the action of an electric current especially for the purpose of stimulating physiologically |
| importune | to press or urge with troublesome persistence |
| scurry | to move in or as if in a brisk pace : scamper |
| condone | to regard or treat (something bad or blameworthy) as acceptable, forgivable, or harmless |
| shrivel | to draw into wrinkles especially with a loss of moisture |